Silent E Page


http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/literacy_centers%20final.htm
Check out for learning center ideas, this website is excellent and has lots of pictures for the learning centers and discription for setting them up.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top_teaching/2010/10/my-november-top-ten-list-word-study-in-action
Excellent web site for ideas on lessons and teaching. This website as a whole has a lots of resources and is connected to private teacher's blogs also. I wasn't sure where to put it so I just added it on my silent e page. This website can be linked to any page and used with a lot of different variety of lesson plans. We can find some interactive game for phonics, some teacher ideas for language arts and early readers etc.

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5 kinds of silent e words:

  1. There are five kinds of Silent final e's. (In short words such as me, she, and he, the e says e, but in longer words where a single e appears at the end, the e is silent.)
    Silent Final e's should be thought of as "having a job."
    • Silent e #1: bake gene time/type code cute
    • (The job of the #1 Silent e is to make the vowel preceding itsay its name.)
Silent e #2: love give blue true
    • (The job of the #2 Silent final e is to prevent us from ending an English word with a v or a u.)
Silent e #3: chance bodice charge allege
    • (The job of the #3 Silent final e is to soften a c or g.)
Silent e #4: lit tle cas tle bot tle dab ble fid dle
    • (The job of the #4 Silent final e is to prevent us from having a syllable with no vowel.)
Silent e # 5: are nurse raise bye ewe owe cause
    • Mrs. Spalding referred to the #5 Silent final e as the "No job e."
  • Mrs. Sanseri refers to the #5 Silent final e as the "Odd job E" and explains: "Any reason for a silent E not covered by the first four is lumped into this final category.
  • 1. The E keeps a word that is not plural from ending in an 's'
  • Examples: dense (not dens), purse (not purs), false (not fals)
  • 2. The E adds length to a short main-idea word. Ex.: awe, ewe, rye
  • 3. The E gives a distinction in meaning between homonyms. Ex.: or/ore for/fore
  • 4. The E is left over from Middle English or a foreign language where the final E was once pronounced. (treatise giraffe)"




Rules of silent e


1. Silent e makes the vowel long.

2. Words may not end in v so we add a silent e.
Example have, give

3. The silent e makes the c say /s/.
Example dance

4. The silent e makes the g say /j/.
Example large

5. Every syllable must have at least one vowel.
Example ap ple
(Other syllables that follow this rule: ble, cle, dle, gle, ple, tle)

6. When s is not doubled after two vowels or a consonant, add a silente.
Example house

7. No reason silent e.
Example come




Word list:


cap
cape
mad
made
scrap
scrape
rag*
rage
bath
bathe
spin
spine
bit
bite
rid
ride
pin
pine
quit
quite
strip
stripe
slim
slime
con
cone
hop
hope
slop
slope
hug*
huge
cub
cube
pet
Pete